Bank of America boss Brian Moynihan, with shares of his bank trailing the performance of its peers this year, is looking to trim payroll again, The Post has learned.

The cuts, to be carried out before Sept. 30, are not expected to be as severe as the 2,000 jobs slashed in 2013, sources said.

“They will be substantially less,” one source noted, saying they could be less than half that amount.

Moynihan told investors on Thursday that BofA was staring at a 5 to 6 percent decline in third quarter trading revenue — and the cuts, in part, were in response to bring head count in that area in line with the new realities.

The layoffs will affect the hard-hit unit that trades fixed income, currencies and commodities, known collectively as FICC, as well as the bank’s global banking and markets desks, according to a person familiar with BofA’s plans. Back-office positions are also on the chopping block.

CEO Moynihan noted in his talk with investors that the firm would make further cuts in its trading division if revenue doesn’t improve and record low interest rates continue to weigh on profitability — although he didn’t mention the timing or depth of the proposed cuts.

“Let me assure you, if the revenue environment weakens or interest rate structures don’t move up and the economy slows down, we’ll have to take out more costs,” Moynihan said at the conference in New York.

Much of BofA’s fixed-income assets are short-term and would have benefited if the central bank had bumped up the federal funds rate for the first time in nine years, said Erik Oja, bank analyst at S&P Capital IQ.

Fixed-income trading accounted for roughly two-thirds of the bank’s overall revenue last quarter, or about $2.1 billion, according to an investor presentation. That’s down some $300 million from the same period a year earlier.